Unpublished Paper
Message Networks: From Alexander Graham Bell to Steve Jobs
(2020)
Abstract
The telephone enabled rapid long distance vocal communication that was not face-to-face. Before its invention except for speeches, lectures and sermons face-to-face were the only means available. Taverns and coffee houses were a popular venue. Steve Jobs the innovator of email and the smart phone created a new world. I use geometry in the form of Hamiltonian circuits to describe the history from the dumb phone to the smart phone and its consequences including the internet.
Keywords
- economic growth,
- technological change
Disciplines
Publication Date
July 29, 2020
Citation Information
JEL O1 Economic Development, technological change and growth, JEL CO2 Mathematical Methods